Chapter 36: Last Chance of Survival Part Two

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN TITANIC OR HSM.

A/N: Bold Italics are from the last chapter. Italics are from what Troy said to Taylor earlier.

"Troy, there's a boat." Taylor whispered to him. However, Troy doesn't make a move or sound.

"Troy, wake up. There's a boat." She says again. Still, there was no sound.

"Wake up baby. Someone came back, Troy." Taylor kept saying to him. She begins to shake his arm trying to wake him up. His head and arm would move, but nothing else would move.

"Troy! Troy! TROY! There's a boat, Troy." Taylor shouts out with as little voice as she has. Still, Troy remains silent. Feeling that the worst has just happened, Taylor begins to cry.

"There's a boat, Troy." She cries. Taylor felt hopeless & she didn't know what to do now. She began to think that the absolute worst thing has just occurred: Troy Jack Bolton, the love of her life, has died.

After a few minutes of tying to wake Troy up, Taylor begins to feel alone and hopeless. She has accepted the fact that Troy is now dead. As she sees the boats sail by her, she lays her head down on the cold door and continues to cry. At first, she decides to die out in the ocean with Troy. She would rather do that than go back to America, be discovered by Toni and be forced to marry Shelton in June. Soon, she remembers the promise she made to Troy.

"I want you to keep going on no matter what and you will stay strong throughout." Troy says.

After she remembered that, something clicked in her head. Taylor realized by staying out to die, she would be breaking her promise. She changes her mind about staying out in the ocean.

"Come back." Taylor weakly says. When the boats don't hear her, she yells out even louder.

"Come back. COME BACK! I'M STILL ALIVE!" Taylor screams as loud as she could. When the boats still wouldn't hear her, she starts to get off the broken door. While she tries to remove her hand from Troy's, she hears a small moaning sound.

"Mmm..." the voice makes out.

"What was that?" Taylor asks. The small voice continues to make noise.

"Taylor..." The voice uttered out. Taylor looks down at Troy and sees his lead slowly moving. He could barely open his eyes.

"Troy, is that you?" She asks.

"Uhhh, Taylor." Troy weakly says. Tears of joy begin to fall from her brown eyes.

"Oh, my God! Troy! You're alive!" Although she was freezing cold, Taylor was ecstatic to learn that Troy was not dead. She didn't kiss him immediately because their lips would be frozen shut. "Oh, baby. I thought you were dead. I wouldn't know what I'd do without you."

"Taylor, what's going on?" He whispered. He was barely alive and was in need of help ASAP.

"A boat has arrived. We're getting out of here, baby. Hold onto me very tightly." Taylor said as she pushes herself off the boat and drops into the ice cold water. She quickly placed Troy on her back. Although he weighted more than her, Taylor knew that she was the only one that can keep both of them alive.

Using all the strength she had left in her, Taylor swam to Officer Lewis' frozen body. She yanks the whistle from his mouth and starts to blow it. She blew it as hard as she could to get the boats attention. Lt. Jordan heard this noise and turned to see where it came from.

"COME ABOUT!" He yelled out as Zeke held a flashlight towards the area. Zeke soon realized who the person blowing the whistle was.

"Hey, it's Troy and Taylor. COME ON, Y'ALL! LET'S PICK THOSE PEOPLE UP!" Zeke yelled out at the men in his boat. As Taylor continued to blow on the whistle, the boat moved closer to the couple. They picked them up out of the water, placed them into the boat, and wrapped them up in two large blankets. Troy and Taylor were saved.

On April 15th, 2012, Angelic II sank into the Atlantic Ocean & 3,500 people went into the sea with the boat. Out of the ship's 40 boats that floated nearby, only two of them came back. Out of 3,500 people, Troy Bolton, Taylor McKessie-Jones, Chad Danforth, Gabriella Montez were four of the 35 people that were saved. After both rescue boats left the area, the 1,500 people had nothing do but wait. Whether it was life of death, nobody but God knew what was in store for them.

There goes Chapter 36. I hope you all enjoyed it. Since many people didn't want to see Troy die like Leonardo did in the movie, I kept a huge note on that. I wanted him to survive in the movie as well.

Now, I finally have my math straight in terms of how many chapters I have left. After this one, there are two chapters left in this entire story. I'm working on them right now and I'm trying my hardest to get them out before New Years. Wish me luck.

Shout outs to the people who reviewed Chapter 35: chaylorxtraylorlover101, Phelycia, animediva1706, Aud11, LunaSolTierra, lilmissmonique, & LadiiBabiiCottonCandii990. Although MagicalStoryMaker reviewed Chapter 2, I'll still give her a shout out anyway.

If there is anything you all would like to see, let me know.

MERRY CHRISTMAS & THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!!